racialism

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The third and sad consequence of the triumph of anti-racialism is the 'recruitment of people of colour to act as public spokespersons'.

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  1. noun An emphasis on race or racial considerations, as in determining policy or interpreting events.
  2. noun Policy or practice based on racial considerations.
  3. noun Chiefly British Variant of racism.

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  • "Moving forward to 2009, we must go further in promoting national unity and non-racialism in our homes, work, schools, churches, sports, arts and culture and all aspects of our lives," he said in his "Letter from the President". —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Since the 19th century, important anti-Jewish movements have been racialist (National Socialism in Germany), but this racialism was not the basis of Christian anti-Jewish movements (Christianity in the 4th and 5th centuries and during the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal). —  Chicago Indymedia
  • I would say that Obama†™ s support for this “legislative abomination on steroids†reveals that his putative post-racialism is only skin deep, but it isn†™ t even that. —  Discriminations
  • Instead of voters projecting qualities of greatness, charisma, post-racialism or epic newness onto a candidate, you have professional partisans and intellectuals projecting political theories onto a president. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Since the election, the media has manufactured a discussion about whether the U.S. has entered some netherworld of post-racialism. —  CounterPunch
 

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